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Abstract: "This paper focuses on the recent emergence of regional production networks and
border industrial zones, the labor migrations they are generating, and their consequences for
?surplus populations? in the Greater Mekong Subregion (mainland Southeast Asia). In this
region the textile and garment industry is employing increasing numbers of workers in border
areas on flexible and highly precarious work ?contracts?. To understand these emergent labor
formations we focus on three scales of analysis through a case study from the Thailand–Burma
border. We focus on initiatives led by the Asia Development Bank, accompanying subregional
political groupings which aim to facilitate capital flows and trade by reducing transaction time
and cost, and a case study of labor recruitment and employment practices in one border town.
In examining these three scales, we question the value of characterizing such trans-national,
state-led, authoritarian, and racialized labor formations as neoliberal."
Keywords: precarious labor,migration, Greater Mekong Subregion, Mae Sot, border industrial
zones, racialization, textile and garment industry
Source/publisher:
Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;
Date of Publication:
2011-10-00
Date of entry:
2011-11-09
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- Individual Documents
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English
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